Man Spends $10 on Breakfast, Loses Faith in Coffee Chain Math
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- ā¢A New Yorker tested $10 breakfasts at Dunkin', Starbucks, and Tim Hortons to find the best breakfast value.
- ā¢Dunkin' and Tim Hortons offered $6 meal deals, but Starbucks had no combo, forcing a separate purchase of coffee and sandwich.
- ā¢The Tim Hortons location in Queens provided the best value and taste, including an extra everything bagel, beating Manhattan's pricier options.
In a quest that sounds like a desperate Daniel Day-Lewis role, a New Yorker tried feeding himself breakfast at Dunkin', Starbucks, and Tim Hortons with exactly $10 ā no more, no less. At Dunkin' Manhattan, $6 scored a meal deal with two tiny 'Wake-Up wraps' (one sausage-egg-cheese with dry eggs, one bacon-hash brown sweetened by cloying BBQ sauce) plus a misdelivered apple fritter instead of a $2.99 coffee roll, all leaving a lonely unspent dollar due to menu pricing magic. Starbucks on the Upper East Side refused combo deals, forcing a $6.75 croissant-based bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich with a $3.25 blonde roast that left budget dessert fantasies out in the cold. Finally, switching boroughs for Tim Hortons in Jamaica, Queens, our hero nabs a $6 sausage-egg-cheese biscuit meal with an extra $3.49 everything bagel, washed down by an iced coffee superior enough to reign supreme. Verdict? Tim Hortons wins on value, taste, and not being located in existential Manhattan price hell.
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(1 of 3)Dunkin' sells wraps so dry they could sand furniture, Starbucks charges Manhattan prices for size XS croissant sandwiches, and Tim Hortons shows up like the hero we didn't deserveāin Queens, where $10 actually means something.
Buying breakfast in Manhattan with $10 is the new extreme sportāDunkinās wraps dry enough to start fires, Starbucks hands you a croissant and a lecture on budgeting.
Starbucks canāt even do a meal deal, giving you a coffee thatās more budget shrink than bold roast. Meanwhile, Tim Hortons just flexes with biscuits and donuts like a breakfast CEO.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 8/28/2026 | Author: Ted Berg
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